Now we get to take a look at a different set of terse Jobs emails, courtesy of The Verge. According to the site, former Palm CEO Edward Colligan claims Jobs threatened to sue the company if it did not agree to stop hiring Apple (aapl) employees. Recently released evidence seems to back up the accusation, showing the extent of Silicon Valley's no-hire agreements during the mid-2000s. (The website has a gallery of emails here.) Adobe (adbe), Apple, Google (goog), Intel (intc), and others are named in a civil lawsuit into such agreements. Employees are seeking class action status and damages from resulting lost wages.

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Palm wasn't the only target of Jobs's indignation. Google emails reveal the beginnings of the Apple CEO's "thermonuclear war" attitude, particularly in the above email to Eric Schmidt, in which Jobs demands Google's cellphone software group stop "relentlessly recruiting" in Apple's iPod group.